TheodoreOfMopsuestia

, so called from his being
bishop of Mopsuestia, a city in Cilicia, was educated and
ordained priest in a monastery, and became one of the
greatest scholars of his time, and had the famous Nestorius
for a disciple. He died in the year 429, or 430. This
bishop wrote a great number of learned works, of which
are now only extant, “A Commentary on the Psalms,”
which is in father Corder’s “Catena,” the authenticity of
| which was verified, in one of his dissertations by the duke
of Orleans, who died in 1752, at Paris, one of the most
learned princes Europe has produced. Theodore left also
a “Commentary” in ms. on the twelve minor prophets;
and several “Fragments,” enumerated hy Dupin, which
are printed in the “Bibliotheca” of Photius. Those parts
of his works supposed to contain the distinction of two
persons in Christ, the letter from Ibas, bishop of Edossa,
who defended him, and the anathemas published by the
celebrated Theodoret, bishop of Cyrus, against St. Cyril,
in favour of Theodore of Mopsuestia, occasioned no little
disturbance in the church. This dispute is called the
affair of the “Three Chapters,” and was not settled till
the fifth general council, in the year 553, when he and his
writings were anathematized. His confession of faith may
be found in father Garnier’s Dissertations on Marius Mercator. 1

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